Research suggests that acculturation and food insecurity are factors that are separately associated with the use of specific food parenting practices among United States (US) families. Certain food parenting practices, such as coercive control and unstructured food parenting practices, are related to negative health consequences in children, such as disordered eating behaviors. The current study aimed to explore associations between acculturation strategies and food parenting practices in a sample of 577 Latinx, Hmong, Somali/Ethiopian, and Multiracial families. A secondary objective was to understand whether food security status significantly modified the relationships between acculturation strategies and food parenting practices. Results showed that acculturation strategies were significantly related to food parenting practices, and patterns in these relationships differed across race and ethnicity. Further, food security status significantly modified the relationship between acculturation strategies and food parenting practices for Latinx, Hmong, and Somali/Ethiopian families, but not for Multiracial families. These results point to the complex relationships among acculturation strategies, food security status, and food parenting practices in immigrant populations in the US. Longitudinal studies exploring the temporal relationships between acculturation strategies, food security status, and food parenting practices would help tease apart how food parenting practices may evolve upon migrating to the US.

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了解社会经济/种族多样化父母的文化适应、粮食不安全和粮食养育实践之间的关系

研究表明，文化适应和粮食不安全是与美国家庭中特定食物养育做法的使用单独相关的因素。某些食物养育做法，例如强制控制和非结构化食物养育做法，与儿童的负面健康后果有关，例如饮食行为紊乱。当前的研究旨在以 577 个拉丁裔、苗族、索马里/埃塞俄比亚人和多种族家庭为样本，探讨文化适应策略与食物养育实践之间的关联。第二个目标是了解粮食安全状况是否显着改变了文化适应策略和食物育儿实践之间的关系。结果表明，文化适应策略与食物养育实践显着相关，并且这些关系的模式因种族和民族而异。此外，粮食安全状况显着改变了拉丁裔、苗族和索马里/埃塞俄比亚家庭的文化适应策略和粮食养育实践之间的关系，但对于多种族家庭则不然。这些结果表明了美国移民群体的文化适应策略、粮食安全状况和粮食养育实践之间的复杂关系。探索文化适应策略、粮食安全状况和食物养育实践之间时间关系的纵向研究将有助于梳理移民到美国后食物养育实践如何演变。